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Sat, 14 Feb 2015 08:45:47 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.2Comment on Fascist Presence in Ghost Town, West Oakland by cavallettehttps://bayareaantifa.noblogs.org/post/2015/02/04/fascist-presence-in-ghost-town-west-oakland/#comment-2
Sat, 14 Feb 2015 08:45:47 +0000http://bayareaantifa.noblogs.org/?p=39#comment-2Autistici/Inventati received a letter by someone who knows the people who live in this street. He didn’t manage to comment this post. We are pasting his letter here for him:
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I wasn’t able to create an account to comment a rebuttal, or even to
create a new posting detailing the inaccuracies of this post, so I’m
going to the people who power noblogs directly.

1 – I’ve successfully contacted the reddit author “cosmic,” IndyBay, and
FireWorks, who took ^ article down from their sites. This home is rented
by my friends, as well as an Eritrean family, and a Chinese acupuncturist.

“Re-post from Indybay, where it has since been deleted. While certain
elements may be overconfidently definitive, or simply unsubstantiated,
we feel it warrants dissemination regardless.”

This BayAreaAntiFa posting is simply irresponsible. I know your site
most likely has nothing to do with what BayAreaAntiFa posts, but I’m
contacting you in hopes that you can either (or do multiple:

* copy / paste my letter to you as a comment to the BayAreaAntiFa post
* take that post down
* post my message here as a new article, to serve as a reminder that
even though people have good intentions with their activism, these
positive energies can be harnessed in harmful ways if directed by a
source with no provable evidence

And at the very least, people who WOULD see the BayAreaAntiFa article
and take action get all the facts / not put my friends in danger. I
understand your desires to bring justice to fascists / nazi’s / racists,
but you have the wrong target.

I’ll edit later this afternoon w/ a video walkaround of the home to
dispute the other tag photo in the BayAreaAntiFa posting.

I’m Filipino. I’m friends with the people who legally rent this home.
All of them.

They are not fascists.

They are not Nazi’s.

They are not racists.

They live in harmony with this neighborhood.

Most of them have grown up in Oakland in lower-middle class families,
and are certainly not a part of the gentrification that’s overtaking the
area.

I’m one of the people who originally asked for this post to be taken
down from indybay, as well as my jewish friend Adam, who is their friend
as well. One of our friends who’s a renter there is Mexican. Our circle
of friends includes Peruvians, African Americans (many of whom
self-identify as black vs. AA), Mexicans, Hondurans, Japanese, South
Korean, Hindi, Jamaicans, Haitians, Hawaiians, Tongans, Brazilians,
Indigenous Americans, that I can think of right off the top of my head.

The people who live in this house cannot monitor 24/7 for graffiti. If
the BayAreaAntiFa who had posted this had seen this house over the past
5 years, such would be very evident.

Noone is being done a service with this post. Not victims of facism /
nazism / racism. Not the impoverished residents of this neighborhood who
are threatened by gentrification. And certainly not my friends, who are
in no way affiliated with the finger-pointing in this post.

If anything happens to my friends, the Eritrean family, or the Chinese
acupuncturist for this post, BayAreaAntiFA are to blame. Not my friends.
This does not sit well with me, nor our circle of friends. And despite
all the good intentions of the poster, the Real facists / nazi’s /
racists will continue unabated, and unidentified.

If you have contact with BayAreaAntiFa, please relay my message:

Please, for the love of decency that drives your antifacist efforts,
take this post down. Just as you and your friends would want to never be
mis-labeled / misidentified / wrongly accused, my friends want the same.
And they deserve to be left alone by people who would fashion themselves
crusaders of your cause.

This has been written in respect, and I hope you read it with the
earnestness that I intend.